Program Nominated for Scat Award by
International Wolf Center
Contact: Tom Myrick, communications director
Office: 763-560-7374 , ext. 225
Cell: 763-567-1907
Following sharp public criticism, Animal Planet removed its Man-Eating Super Wolves show from previously scheduled air times on Tuesday evening, May 27, and Wednesday, May 28. The program was a part of the special series Monster Week, which routinely demonizes real and imagined predators.
“The show was irresponsible,” said the Center’s Executive Director Rob Schultz. “Producers blended distorted facts, fabricated details and unreliable resources to confuse the public and incite fear and hatred of wolves.”
Renowned Senior Research Scientist and wolf expert L. David Mech, of the U.S. Geological Survey, denounced the program as “Total nonsense and a real disservice to the wolf, to science, and to the public.
Mech, who has spent his 55-year career studying wolves in many areas of the world, says that the program is one of the most sensationalistic, exaggerations of the real wolf that he has ever seen.
“If wolves were so dangerous to humans,” Mech asked, “how have Minnesotans canoeing and hiking survived throughout the Superior National Forest and other parts of northern Minnesota, where some 2,500 or 3,000 wolves roam? Or throughout most of Canada, where an estimated 60,000 wolves live?”
Photo Caption: Mech takes behavioral notes on an arctic wolf during a research expedition. He carries no gun and never felt he needed to do so.
“Wolf attacks on humans are uncommon and extremely rare,” says Schultz. “To suggest that wolves have consumed all of their natural prey and are beginning to feed on humans is ridiculous and demonstrates a lack of understanding of our natural world.”
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.
Exposing the Big Game 
Yes!
We Did It Wolf Warriors!
Right On!
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how about they do a show on how the wolf has befriended and protected mankind through the ages
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Terrific! Now we need to stop blaming wild horses for all trouble on the range.
Absolutely! The Livestock Industry not only hates wolves, coyote and most other so-called “predators” but wild horses as well. This terrible industry is turning the West into a Domestic Feed Lot. Public Lands Grazing is the main reason for Predator Control slaughter in the West and also starting to gain in the East.
Cattle and calf losses from animal predators in 2010 – seemingly the latest figures from USDA:
Cattle deaths due to animal predators equaled 5.5 percent of the total deaths from all causes and resulted in a loss of $98.5 million to farmers and ranchers. Coyotes and
dogs caused the majority of cattle and calf predator losses accounting for 53.1 percent and 9.9 percent respectively.
Cattle and calf losses from NON-PREDATOR CAUSES totaled 3.77 million head or 94.5 % of the total losses during 2010.
Deaths claimed due to:
Coyotes: 116,700
Mountain lions bobcats, lynx: 18,900
Dogs: 21,800
Vultures [! mm Living in the west and watching vultures, I find ranchers’ claims pretty ridiculous/greedy/milking the system – Take your choice]: 11,900
Wolves: 8,100
Bears: 2,800
Other predators: 12,400
Unknown: 27,300
total due to animal predation = 219,900
Non-predator
Digestive problems 505,000
Respiratory problems 1,055,000
Metabolic problems 59,800
Mastitis 62,000
Lameness/injury 140,900
Other diseases 179,500
Weather related 489,000
Calving problems 494,000
Poisoning 36,100
Theft 15,100
Other non-predator 301,600
Unknown non-predator 435,000
Total non-predator 3,773,000
Wolves take, if claims are to be believed, .2 percent! one in near 500. Only bears and vegans eat less meat than wolves.
Yeah wolves are very little and big wolf hunts …. Why big deal.. Not surprise many who hate wolves so much.. 😢
A small victory, but a victory non the less. Thank goodness commonsense prevailed. Long live the wolves!
Wow! I love the little scat award trophy! I wonder if I can get a volume discount. I need a whole bunch for the Idaho governor, the majority of Idaho legislators, the perverts on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, and the kill advocates and implementers in the Fish and Game Department. I wish I owned some land near the state Capitol. I would love to erect a giant version of the trophy dedicated to all the deranged killers. A new tourist attraction!
LOL 🙂
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Next week we are going to make comments at the NM Game Commission, which like most others uses antiquated “North American Game Management” ideology from Aldo Leopold, wolf killer, and Teddy Roosevelt, Trophy hunter. These Game agencies cater to the Special Interest groups of hunting/trapping/livestock grazing. Until Animal people & and refuse to accept the fake statistics and jargon of these agencies, nothing will get better for w since wild animals, under this game management framework. Just think: wild animals are stressed to the max out there, dealing with Climate Change, water depletion, bigger, faster fires, decreasing biodiversity in general, they also have to contend with trapping, hunting, poisons, shooting from air and land. I am surprised that any wild animals still remain.
And, even animal people accept the mantra that there “are plenty of coyotes out there,” which is nonsense. Coyotes are the most maligned animal, with what amounts to no protection for them at all. Outrageous–and I blame some of the so-called “wildlife” groups, who have just gone along with all this shit.
Please, go to your local Game and Fish Dept. and Commission Meetings,(or whatever they may be called in your state)– speak up and against their ideology, question their “statistics” which are fake, and manipulated to fit their mission which is that wildlife are “quotas, harvests, numbers , to justify the continued existence of these anti-wildlife agencies. Read and study The Fallacy of Wildlife Management by John A. Livingston. Another great book (big and heavy, too) is The Waste of the West by Lynn Jacobs. The Predator Defense group in Oregon also has some great info on this game management. Keep fighting.